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Donald Trump is the largest shareholder in TMTG, holding more than 40% of its shares through a revocable trust, according to a July 21 Bloomberg report. The company operates Truth Social, President Trump’s favored social media platform.

The company $238.1 million net loss for the June quarter compares with a $20 million net loss in the year-earlier period. TMTG said the “vast bulk” of its losses in Q2 of 2026 were “non-cash losses,” including unrealized losses on digital assets, digital assets pledged and equity securities ($190.4 million). The company reported $25.6 million in legal expenses in the most recent quarter, primarily related to “legacy litigation” that has now been “substantially resolved.” TMTG’s $1.7 million in revenue was up 89% from $883,300 generated in the second quarter of 2025.

TMTG said it ended Q2 with total assets of $2.0 billion and financial assets of approximately $1.9 billion comprising cash, restricted cash, short-term investments, equity securities, note receivable and accrued interest, digital assets and digital assets pledged.

On Aug. 1, TMTG launched a new “Truth API” service that provides instant access to “the highest-ranking” accounts on Truth Social — including Trump’s — charging as much as $100,000 per month. The move has drawn criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, including Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who called it “a form of buying access.” In announcing earnings Monday, TMTG said it had “onboarded a number of institutional customers prior to its August 1, 2026, launch and, despite receiving what it believes to be factually inaccurate criticism of Truth API, is continuing to onboard additional partners.”

TMTG says its mission is “to end Big Tech’s assault on free speech by opening up the Internet and giving people their voices back.” The company was founded in February 2021 after Trump was suspended from platforms including Twitter (now called X), Facebook, Instagram and YouTube; those services said Trump had violated rules against inciting violence in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In December 2025, Trump Media announced a merger agreement with nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies in an all-stock deal valued at more than $6 billion. The companies had expected to close the transaction by mid-2026; on Monday, TMTG said the TAE merger is targeted to close in Q4 2026.

“Over the past few months, we’ve sharpened our strategic direction and brought real discipline to how we allocate capital,” TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn, a former Hulu exec, said in a statement. “We’re making meaningful progress toward our proposed merger with TAE Technologies, which we believe is the most important driver of long-term shareholder value and a natural extension of our commitment to building durable, un-cancelable infrastructure, this time in energy security. At the same time, we’ve refined our approach to capital allocation to better direct resources to the core pillars of our media business, and that effort is already yielding results.”

Meanwhile, on Aug. 7, TMTG and Yorkville Acquisition Corp. (a blank-check company incorporated in the Cayman Islands set up for the purposes of M&A) announced an agreement to “mutually terminate their previously announced proposed business combination to establish Trump Media Group CRO Strategy, Inc.” — which had been described as a “digital asset treasury company focused on acquisition of the native cryptocurrency token of the Cronos ecosystem (‘CRO’)” — citing “prevailing market conditions” and “shifting business and stakeholder priorities.” In addition, Crypto.com, Trump Media and Yorkville America mutually agreed not to pursue their previously announced partnership, under which Crypto.com was to service certain of Yorkville America’s anticipated electronically traded fund (ETF) offerings.

Originally, TMTG and Crypto.com’s agreement called for Trump Media to introduce a rewards system on the Truth Social and Truth+ platforms that used Crypto.com’s digital wallet infrastructure and that adopted the CRO digital currency as a utility token. In a joint press release last Friday, TMTG and Crypto.com said: “Rather than develop a direct prediction market integration on Truth Social, the companies will pivot to a marketing agreement under which Crypto.com’s prediction markets experiences will be marketed to the Truth Social user base.” %!s()

Supernova is a massive Smash Bros. tournament in Baltimore that takes place every summer. 33-year-old Hungrybox — known as one of the ‘Five Gods’ of the competitive Melee scene — was in attendance, and he celebrated a victory so hard that he literally passed out.

Hungrybox was facing off against SluG to secure a spot in the Top 16 bracket when the viral moment happened. It was an extremely close game, with Hbox saying he went down to the wire against his opponent in a nail-biting 3-2 set, going down to his last stock in game five.

— hungrybox (@LiquidHbox) August 8, 2026

As is tradition within the fighting game community, Hungrybox popped off after winning the final game… but he might’ve popped off a little too hard, as he stumbled and fainted, falling to the floor.

Videos of the incident quickly went viral within the broader FGC, sparking concerns about the player’s health. Luckily, Hbox confirmed that he was unharmed, and even “had water and a very good lobster roll for lunch prior.”

In response to the influx of worried comments, Hungrybox opened up about his ongoing weight loss journey in another post, clarifying that he’d most likely fainted due to screaming very loudly after suddenly jumping up from his seat — something that happened once before in 2021 when he won a set against Avery ‘Ginger’ Wilson during a live stream.

Not that anyone cares, but I’m down 12 pounds since June and plan on losing 30 more by January with very strict diet and exercise (soccer or gym daily and finally learned how to cook at home with air fryer and other pieces)

Also I gotta say since this getting repetitive:

You…

— hungrybox (@LiquidHbox) August 10, 2026

“You can’t hear it in the video too well, but I basically scream as loud as I can for an extended period of time, and that’s what caused me to faint,” he wrote. “I think if anyone tries to yell for 10 seconds straight standing up without taking a breath, they’d get dizzy too, lol. [It] wasn’t about getting up too quick, and I’ve never passed out from just getting up from a chair lol.”

“When I went to the doctor last time about it a few years ago (first faint), there wasn’t really anything conclusive, apart from a slightly elevated red blood cell count. Blood pressure was normal and still is, but yeah, I’ll likely go again just to double check anyway. Just wanted to share in case people were curious.”

In the end, Hungrybox made it all the way to the Top 8 bracket in Losers side, ultimately finishing 4th with a loss to Zain.

This mf HBox forgot his badge, got stopped in front of VIP, and just pointed at a nearby ad with his fkn face on it and got in. pic.twitter.com/1JfQ0PgS5L

— XIF (@TheXIF) August 9, 2026

This wasn't the only wild thing that happened to Hungrybox at Supernova; the Melee god forgot his badge for the event and was stopped by security, prompting him to point at his face on a Zenni eyewear ad to confirm his identity.

This is the latest big moment to happen in the Smash Scene after two women won Doubles at a SuperMajor for the first time in history the previous weekend, a record-setting achievement that Hungrybox celebrated on social media.

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The research team, led by William J. O'Hearn (DPZ & University of Exeter, U.K.), also shows that female Guinea baboons are less dependent on their primary male for access to meat than previously thought after documenting the first-ever case of female-initiated prey capture. The results, published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, shed new light on the evolutionary origins of meat provisioning as a male quality signal in primates.

The practice of catching and sharing prey as a signal of male quality has deep evolutionary roots and relevance to the human evolutionary trajectory. In human hunter–gatherer societies, catching prey can signal a male's quality as a provider, and sharing the spoils of the hunt can broadcast that signal throughout the community.

Guinea baboons offer a valuable analogy to the evolution of human food-sharing practices through their parallel evolution with early human ancestors. Additionally, they exhibit multilevel social organization that parallels the nested social levels of human societies, in which the lowest level (baboon: unit; human: core family) consists of one primary male, one to several associated females and their offspring.

A previous DPZ study, also led by O'Hearn, revealed how Guinea baboons share meat within these social organizations: More frequent sharing occurs at the level of the closest social unit, akin to human hunter–gatherers' practice of first sharing hunted prey with their immediate family members. The current study investigated whether meat-acquisition success and consequent meat-sharing act as male quality signals in Guinea baboons, also resembling patterns found in human hunter–gatherer societies.

Female baboons are less dependent on their primary male than expected

To answer this question, researchers from the Cognitive Ethology Laboratory at the DPZ used observations made over nine years at the DPZ field station Simenti in Senegal. They combined annotated recordings of 109 specific meat-eating events with demographic and behavioral data from 465 individually identified baboons. In 11% of these events, the prey was caught by a female—the first-ever observations of this behavior for Guinea baboons—and 41% of the meat eaten by females originated from sources other than their primary male.

In the previous study on Guinea baboon meat-sharing, male baboons transferred up to 40% of their caught prey to the females in their unit. While these results suggested that female baboons may depend on their males for access to meat, the new findings reveal that this dependence is not as pronounced as previously assumed. Still, a large share of the meat female baboons accessed originated from their primary male.

No female preference for more skilled male prey catchers or meat sharers

Additionally, statistical models revealed no link between a male's frequency of meat acquisition or transfer and either the number of females in his unit or the length of female–male associations. "Despite what we predicted, we found no evidence that females preferred to join or remain longer in the units of males who acquired or shared meat more often. Instead, females seem to get a substantial portion of their meat from sources other than their unit male, including simply catching the prey themselves," says lead author O'Hearn.

The largest factor in male mating success instead was age, with animals in their early- to mid-prime ages having more associated females in their units than older males.

Other factors might influence female reproductive decisions

Taken together, the results suggest that prey capturing and meat transfers are unlikely to be behaviorally relevant signals of male quality in Guinea baboons. This could in part be explained by the relative infrequency of meat-eating events in the lives of wild baboons, which occur far less often than successful hunts among human hunter–gatherers. Instead, female reproductive decisions could be influenced by physical signals from male baboons, such as more strongly red-tinted patches on their butts.

Similar physical signals have been shown to signal male quality in other primates. Or females could focus on behavioral or social signals, such as a male's tendency to care for its offspring or its behavior toward other females in the unit.

"Guinea baboons provide a particularly interesting evolutionary comparison to humans, in which similar ecological conditions and social systems have resulted in differences in the importance of meat sharing to female partner choice. Where females have many options for sourcing meat, it need not be a factor when choosing a mate," says O'Hearn.

More information

William J O'Hearn et al, Meat Acquisition Skill and Male Reproductive Success in Guinea Baboons, American Journal of Biological Anthropology (2026). DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70327

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Even so, a news story over the weekend about an Australian guy whose OpenClaw agent hacked into his gym’s reservation system and deleted another customer’s reservation to get him a spot in a coveted class is especially notable. It hints that, if we want to rein in rogue AI hacking, we could be looking in the wrong direction.

Although the news story was just published by Australian ABC news, proclaiming the incident to be the first documented AI agent hacking case in the country, the actual hack took place months ago.

The OpenClaw owner, Andrew Bird, published a now-deleted blog post about it on his company’s website on April 10, according to a copy still visible on the Internet Archive.

He had trained his OpenClaw to do tasks like book him appointments. He liked going to a popular early morning exercise class and was tired of landing on the waitlist and then playing “refresh roulette” as he described it, to get a spot.

When he asked the bot to book him a spot, the best it could do was No. 4 on the wait list, he told ABC. Then his agent told him it had found a way to book him into the classes in advance. Far in advance. Months before the gym made those classes available for sign up.

Bird asked if it could move him up on the waitlist. It did as asked and attempted to do so. The bot had found a vulnerability in the authorization portion of the appointment software the gym was using. It hacked in and canceled the No. 1 reservation on the wait list. The bot cheerfully told him, according to logs of the chat published by ABC:

The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people’s reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you’ve moved from #4 to #3 already,” it messaged back.

Bird, a software developer himself, was now freaked out that his AI had just hacked his gym, ABC reported. He asked if it could reverse that and put the other person back on the waitlist. No. That wasn’t possible, the AI said.

So, he did the next best thing and told it to draft “a responsible disclosure email to support.” The email “explained the vulnerability, suggested fixes, and even compared the broken mutations with the ones that correctly enforced authorization,” Bird wrote.

Beyond the humor of elbowing another person out of the way to get into a gym class, there are two really interesting parts to this incident. One is that Bird was using Claude Opus 4.6, released in February, with his OpenClaw. The other is Silicon Valley’s reaction on X where the story had gone viral.

After the famed incident last month where an unreleased OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face, unbeknownst to OpenAI at the time, other labs investigated their models. Disclosures then came from Moonshot’s Kimi K3, Meta’s Muse Spark, and Anthropic.

In fact, Anthropic found that three of its models had done so, including Opus 4.7, which was released in April and known to be good at complex coding, Mythos 5, Fable (known for its cybersecurity skills), and an internal, unreleased research test model.

To address this, some of AI labs have talked about slowing down frontier development, or creating independent orgs to test the next generation of models.

But Bird’s OpenClaw had used 4.6, he disclosed. That implies that older models, as well as countless three-steps-behind open-weight models, are already exceptionally good hackers. So who knows how many of them have hacked, or are currently hacking, in order to achieve their prompt-owners desires?

Likewise, many people on X saw the humorous potential in this incident. As Andreessen Horowitz partner Christian Keil posted in response: “This is just terrible. Anyone know if it works for golf tee times?”

Or as X user Roon noted, “the sf tennis reservation system will become one of the most hardened softwares on the planet of earth.”

Funny, yes. But there’s some truth that these jokes get at. There’s a future that the Valley is building where everyone has an AI agent working on their own behalf. This agent was only doing what was asked of it and did not have Mythos-level capabilities at its disposal.

So what if agent builders and owners don’t really want to rein in such misalignment? We could be looking at the first hint of pandemonium for everything from airline reservations to concert tickets, or any other frustrating customer-service situation. As one person on X put it, what’s the wildest hack AI has discovered so far? It could be cutting in line.

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Big Walk is a very special game. Since its launch last week, I’ve been delighted to see my social media feeds fill up with videos of players goofing off together in the co-op puzzle adventure. It never fails to put a smile on my face, and that’s a testament to developer House House’s craft. The goofy character designs, the playground colors, the playful puzzles — everything comes together to form a wonderful co-op game that has a way of sticking with you long after you’ve finished it.

It may feel like it came out of nowhere, but Big Walk shouldn’t have been a surprise if you were plugged into the indie game scene circa 2019. You can find so much of its DNA in House House’s award-winning debut game, Untitled Goose Game. If you’ve never played it before, or just haven’t thought about it in years, Untitled Goose Game is currently part of PlayStation Plus Extra. (Convenient for anyone currently playing Big Walk via PS Plus!) It’s worth revisiting if only to see just how closely linked the studio’s two games actually are despite being entirely different on paper.

Untitled Goose Game is hard to classify. It’s somewhere between the stealth and puzzle genres, but neither label properly describes it. You play as a white goose who is hellbent on terrorizing a small town, as geese tend to do. You can steal stuff, honk at children, and generally cause an absolute mess. As mundane as that idea sounds, it was a minor revelation in 2019. Untitled Goose Game won Game of the Year at both the DICE Awards and Game Developers Choice Awards, and for good reason. It’s a creative joy that showed how many untapped game ideas were still out there at a time when it felt like the industry was stagnating.

Looking back at it now, there are three specific components that you can see repeated in Big Walk. The first is character animation. What really sells Untitled Goose Game’s wacky premise is that House House went all-in on animating the actual goose. Despite the fact that it's a humble bird animated in grounded fashion, House House makes every movement as expressive as possible. Something as simple as your goose’s little butt waggle as it clumsily runs around gives the little guy so much character.

The same is true for Big Walk. Its characters are smooth weirdos with balled hands and cylindrical beaks, but they have as much personality as a photorealistic human in a Naughty Dog game. The flailing limbs are a highlight, as are their wiggling mouths. Despite being fictional critters, they feel like real animals with their own distinct behaviors. It’s a natural evolution of the goose.

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My favorite piece of both games is their sound design. Big Walk especially excels here, with its wealth of field recordings that fill the world, and little details in pitter-pattering feet or clicky flashlight buttons. That strength is on full display in Untitled Goose Game, too. The littlest sounds, like your goose’s feet splatting over pavement or a sprinkler watering a garden, go a long way towards making the world feel alive. The star of the show, of course, is the honk. Your goose’s annoying call is arguably what catapulted Untitled Goose Game to meme status. It’s a devious sound effect with enough variations to make you feel like you’re controlling an actual bird.

You likely remember all of that if you played Untitled Goose Game in 2019, but you might have missed the fact that House House later sharpened its multiplayer skills in the game. A September 2020 update added a co-op mode, allowing two players to annoy townies together. You can tell that the seeds for Big Walk were planted there, as the update has players solving bite-sized challenges together in between moments of sandbox silliness. If you never got around to trying it, it’s the perfect way to follow up your Big Walk playthrough.

Whenever I discover a new game I love, I always find it gratifying to return to the developer’s previous work and try to find the links between them. Untitled Goose Game makes for a great replay in that context; it helps reveal all the small details that elevate Big Walk, and reaffirms that House House is one of the finest studios out there. %!s()